Bible Cross References
the fig-tree
Deuteronomy 28:15-18
15
But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of Jehovah your God, to take heed to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you:
16
Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
17
Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
18
Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, the offspring of your cattle and the increase of your flocks.
Deuteronomy 28:30-41
30
You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not begin to eat.
31
Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them.
32
Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no might in your hand.
33
A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and your produce, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.
34
Thus you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.
35
Jehovah will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
36
Jehovah will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods; wood and stone.
37
And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the nations where Jehovah shall drive you.
38
You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.
39
You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40
You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
41
You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
Jeremiah 14:2-8
2
Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They mourn for the land, and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
3
And their nobles have sent their little ones for water; they came to the cisterns, and found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
4
Because the ground is parched, for there was no rain on the earth, the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their heads.
5
Yea, the doe also gave birth in the field and abandoned it, because there was no grass.
6
And the wild asses stood in the high places; they sniffed at the wind like dragons; their eyes failed because there was no grass.
7
O Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, work for Your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.
8
O the Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be like a sojourner in the land, and like a traveler who turns aside to lodge for the night?
Joel 1:10-13
10
The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up, the oil tree droops.
11
Be dried up, you farmers, howl, you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
12
The vine is dried up and the fig tree droops, the pomegranate, and the palm tree, and the apple tree; all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of men.
13
Gird yourselves and lament, you priests. Howl, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who serve my God. For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God.
Joel 1:16-18
16
Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17
The seed shrivels under their clods; the storehouses are laid waste, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.
18
How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
Amos 4:6-10
6
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places; and you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.
7
And I have also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest. And I caused rain to fall on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One parcel of land was rained on, and the parcel where it did not rain was dried up.
8
So two or three cities staggered to one city in order to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.
9
I have struck you with blasting and mildew. When your gardens and your vineyards, and your figs, and your olives increased, the locust devoured them; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.
10
I have sent a plague among you in the manner of Egypt; I have killed your young men with the sword, along with your captive horses. And I have made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils; yet you have not returned to Me, declares Jehovah.
Haggai 2:16
since those days, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty from the wine trough, there were but twenty.
Haggai 2:17
I struck you with blight, and with mildew, and with hail, in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not turn to Me, says Jehovah.